Six House Democratic lawmakers have formed a task force with the goal to identify ways to strengthen the security of the U.S. election system, Federal Times reported Thursday. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi) and Robert
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A bipartisan group of three House lawmakers has introduced a bill that would establish an interagency working group to assist federal employees who have experienced data breaches and other cyber attacks, Nextgov
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The House Homeland Security Committee has passed two bills that would reorganize the Department of Homeland Security‘s cybersecurity operations and require DHS to report how the government discloses cyber vulnerabilities, Nextgov reported
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The governments of Japan and the U.S. have affirmed their commitment to cooperate on bilateral cyber concerns and bolster public-private partnerships with industry, academia and civil society in efforts to achieve cybersecurity
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The Department of Health and Human Services has released an updated version of its web tool that works to provide details on breaches of health information. HHS said Tuesday the HIPAA Breach Reporting
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Rep. Greg Walden (R-Oregon), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has called on CEOs of several technology companies to attend a Sept. 7 hearing to testify about net neutrality rules,
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The White House has launched a summit in an effort to understand how technology business management standards can help guide federal government’s spending on information technology platforms, Federal News Radio reported Monday.
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The Defense Department plans to deploy new computer algorithms designed to extract objects of interest from moving or still imagery by the end of the year, DoD News reported Friday. U.S. Marine
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Chris Sambar, a senior vice president at AT&T, has said the First Responder Network Authority and AT&T will work to integrate cybersecurity into devices and applications as part of the proposed wireless
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The U.S. Army has established a cyber defense research laboratory to offer industry and federally-funded partners access to live cybersecurity data. The Army Cyber-research Analytics Laboratory is built through a partnership between the Army Research
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